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ail any one of the three prongs of New Jersey’s ABC test, and the worker is your employee. The Department of Labor adopted new independent contractor rules on May 5, making that standard official in binding regulation, and employers have until October 1 to get their contractor relationships in ord
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TL;DR: On May 5, 2026, New Jersey filed N.J.A.C. 12:11, which codifies how the state’s ABC test for independent contractor